1/8/16 Want to know what information your mobile apps are leaking about you? Check out the Recon App Report! We break it down by app, OS, information leaked, and who is collecting it. If you're interested, also check out the ReCon Web Report, showing the same details for information leaked through your mobile Web browser.

12/8/15 Our proposal to adopt in-flight IP connectivity to serve a variety of airline flight communication applications was accepted to HotMobile '16! This is a collaboration with NorthWEstern University, led by the talented John Rula, advised by Fabian Bustamante.

10/1/15 Interested in whether there's a proxy in your network? Check out Proxy Detector for Android! Also see the associated tech report for more details.

8/25/15 I am starting a two-year term as Associate Editor for CCR. Keep those excellent submissions coming!

8/15/15 I was awarded a Google Research Award for my work on identifying traffic differentiation. Many thanks to Google for their support!

7/23/15 Our research group at NEU has a whopping 7 papers appearing at IMC (1/6 of the program)! I am involved in three of the papers: "Identifying Traffic Differentiation in Mobile Networks" (with Stony Brook), "On SSL Certificate Revocation: The Race to the Bottom in Securing the Web's PKI" (with U of Maryland, Duke, and Stanford), and "Investigating Interdomain Routing Policies in the Wild" (with Stony Brook, UFMG, and USC). Congrats to all of our collaborators, and particularly to the students who did all the hard work! More details to come when the camera ready versions are available.

6/12/15 Our ReCon project (part of Meddle) was awarded a grant from the Data Transparency Lab! We are very grateful to
the DTL board for their generous support.

6/3/15 I gave a talk at IBM Haifa about Herd, our anonymous VoIP solution. Many thanks to Gil Zussman for organizing the event, to Michael Schapira and Danny Dolev at Hebrew Univeristy for making it possible for me to attend!

5/21/15 Shichang Xu won a best poster award at MobiSys 2015 for our work on Context-Triggered Mobile Measurement!

11/4/14 UPDATE: Video from the event! I am co-organizing the first annual New England Networking and Systems Day, to be held at Boston University on October 24th. If you are a networking and systems researcher or practitioner in the area, please consider submitting an abstract for a lightning talk. All are welcome to attend, even if you don't have a talk!

9/10/14My work with Arnau Gavalda, Jordi Duch, et al. has been accepted to PNAS! The article is titled "Impact of heterogeneity and socio-economic factors on individual behavior in decentralized sharing ecosystems," and it shows (among many things) how BitTorrent users are "specialists" in terms of what they download, and specialists vary by region and GDP.

7/25/14 Our paper on SSL reissue and revocation behavior in the wake of Heartbleed has been accepted to IMC. Congrats to Liang and the other authors!

2/9/14 I'll be serving on the CoNEXT and IMC PCs for 2014. Looking forward to seeing some great submissions!

11/25/13 Meddle is live and open to external users. If you want device-wide ad-blocking for your phone and want to see how trackers are tracking you and your device, sign up here: http://www.meddle.mobi/.

11/24/13 I'm happy to report that two papers have been accepted to the Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference, both on the topic of measuring and understanding performance in mobile networks. These were joint work with University of Michigan, USC and Google.

9/30/13 I was awarded an NSF NeTS grant (co-PI with Arvind Krishnamurthy) to explore
automated diagnosis and repair of Internet problems. Thanks NSF!

I'm happy to announce that my coauthors and I will have 2 papers in
SIGCOMM 2013! One paper is about identifying the
origins of BGP path changes -- with Umar Javed, Italo Cunha, Ethan
Katz-Bassett, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Tom Anderson.
The other is about an efficient anonymity network that is
resilient to traffic analysis -- with Stevens Le Blond, Wenxuan Zhou,
Hitesh Ballani, Peter Druschel and Paul Francis. Congrats to
everyone involved!

Ethan Katz-Bassett and I were awarded an M-Lab Network Research
Grant for investigating the origins of the mobile Internet
performance. Thanks M-Lab!

My fantastic collaborator, Ashwin Rao, was
awarded one of 8 best paper awards at the CoNEXT '12 Student Workshop
for Meddle:
Middleboxes for Increased Transparency and Control of Mobile Traffic
!

I'll be a poster/demo chair for SIGCOMM 2014 in Chicago!

I'll be serving on the TPC for the CoNEXT '13 Student Workshop. This is a great venue for early
feedback (see below).

Our work on automatic avoidance of network problems has been
accepted to HotNets 2011.

Web browsing is leaking all kinds of personal information. As a
first step toward addressing this, we've released Piigeon, a browser extension that
informs users of Web login safety before you submit credentials.
Please help us by beta
testing and giving feedback!

Our work on the network impact of a large distributed system has
been accepted for publication in SIGCOMM 2011!

Our work on privacy revelations for Web and mobile apps will appear
in HotOS 2011.

A revised version of our tech report on pitfalls
for testbed evaluations of Internet systems has been accepted for
the April issue of SIGCOMM CCR. One of the key findings is that our
current testbeds and public measurement vantage points are woefully
inadequate for inferring properties of a large, Internet scale system
such as BitTorrent. A more comprehensive study of this issue is under
submission.

I passed my dissertation defense on February 15th! Slides from the
talk are here.

I gave a talk about EdgeScope
at the AIMS
workshop on February 7th. I also briefly presented my
dissertation work.